Expertise

Olga is an Assistant Professor at the Center for eHealth Research and Disease Management, department of Psychology Health & Technology (PHT). Her main fields of expertise lie in user centred design and persuasive eHealth technologies. Olga’s current research focuses on design, evaluation and implementation of personalized eHealth technology to enhance healthy lifestyle of adolescents (sexual health, obesity) and self-management of chronic patients (COPD, diabetes) by applying social media, mHealth and serious gaming technologies. She works together with Prof. Dr. Lisette van Gemert-Pijnen (UT) and Dr. Silke David at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM).

Olga is involved in supervision of bachelor, master and PhD students, coordination of research projects and submitting new research proposals to acquire funding (National and EU: INTERREG, Horizon2020).

Olga is reviewer for various international conferences and international journals (JMIR, Health Policy & Technology). She was invited editor for a special issue of LNCS Tutorial Human-Centered Visualization Environments, invited program committee member for eTelemed conference (eTelemed 2014 & eTelemed 2015), organiser of NSRII 2014, en co-organiser of eHealth Workshops at ICBM 2014 and Persuasive 2015.

Current projects:

Sense eHealth project (UT-RIVM)

Supporting healthy lifestyle of adolescents and persuasive and personalized eHealth services, social media and serious gaming applications. The goal of the Sense eHealth project is to design, evaluate and implement of national network of eHealth services that provide personalized and more (cost)-effective care according to the special needs of high-risk adolescents. The overall aim is to contribute to the healthy lifestyle, self-management and to prevent the sexually transmitted infections.

The project is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport (VWS) under grant 2012/2 and is carried out in collaboration with the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and Environment (RIVM) [http://www.rivm.nl/English].

Teaching

Olga is currently involved in teaching of eHealth & user centred design, supervision of students and development of new courses: e.g., Design & Research, Theory & Project components, as a part of new module for educational TOM model (Bachelor Health Psychology).

SOR meet-up Public Health 2.0. Sense: Social Media and Sexual Health of Young Adults. National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands,

Kulyk, O. (2012). Workshop: Quality Standards for Digital Health Services. Digital Learning Week, National Institute for STI and AIDS Control in the Netherlands, Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Kulyk, O. (2012) E-health to Support Sexual Health of Young Adults Under 25. National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Presentation at the Reference meeting of the Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (EPI), Centre for Infectious Disease Control (CIb)